God's messenger met me and said, "How is it, Jabir, that I see you downcast?" I replied, "My father has died a martyr, leaving children and a debt." He asked, "Shall I not give you good news of what God has caused your father to meet?" and when I replied, "Certainly, messenger of God," he said, "God has never spoken to anyone but from behind a veil, but He brought your father to life and spoke to him face to face saying, `My servant, if you express a wish to Me, I shall grant it.' He replied, `0 my Lord, my wish is that Thou shouldest grant me life and let me be killed for Thy sake a second time but the Lord who is blessed and exalted said, `I have already said that they will not return'." Then came down, "You must not consider those who have been killed in God's path to be dead...[*]" *Quran; 3:169 Tirmidhi transmitted it.